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How to Preventing Applications From Using Location Information

Published by SuperCheats Staff on Oct 17th 2013
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By default when you setup Windows 8 you may have given apps to access to your location.Anyone with the right tools could easily find out where you've been with your laptop over a significant period of time, so if you're worried about this, you may want to turn this features off.

What to do:

    Press the Windows + I keyboard combination and click on the Change PC Settings.
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    The Metro Control Panel opens, Go to the Privacy section.
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    Scroll down on the right-hand side you will see a setting allowing apps to use your location.
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    Move the slider to the left to turn it off.
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